Patterns of Sustainable Shophouse Development for Transit-Oriented Areas

Abstract

Shophouse is a combination between commercial and residential functions in one building that commonly found in numerous cities in Indonesia. In the development of TOD area, shophouses become one of the TOD developers' marketing strategy in attracting more potential consumers, due to its economic value. Apparently, in its development and utilization, the existence of shophouses are causing several problem that related to environmental sustainability. This paper describe two sustainability problems that occur in the development of shop houses. Firstly, the ineffective utilization of living spaces in shophouses, which is the main focus of the discussion in this paper. Secondly, the shophouse facades were frequently changed by the shopkeepers or tenants to adjust their business representation, in which opposing the principle of sustainability. These two phenomena describe the inconsistency in sustainability principle of the shophouses in a transit-oriented development. Thus, the development of shophouses in transit-oriented area need to acquire a different pattern from the current pattern of shophouses. The residential function in a shophouses in a transit-oriented area should be vertically separated from the business function, or to be part of the Mixed-Use Concept. Therefore, hopefully the development of shophouses could support the sustainability principle of transit-oriented areas in the future.